Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:11:49 +0200
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond
Message-ID:  <38EA84C5.73EC3E1A@informatik.uni-halle.de>
References:  <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


Alfred Perlstein schrieb:
> 
> * Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> [000404 17:19] wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm a FreeBSD "newbie" (you would call it so, wouldn't you?), and I have
> > installed
> > a machine with FreeBSD 3.4 (distribution from Walnut Creek CDROM).
> > The system works fine, except that the system doesn't answer for any
> > ip-requests
> > (ECHO REQ., FTP-Connect, NFS-Connect) before I didn't ping a machine.
> > which machine
> > that is makes no different.
> > When I've pinged a machine, the system will answer incoming packets for
> > half an
> > hour (or so), and the theater begins again...
> >
> > outgoing connection I can start from this machine without any problems.
> > What may the reason for such an incredible behavior?
> 
> I would try upgrading to 3-stable, see:
>   http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html
I think my 3.4-stable is the most current version?

> In the future it's much more helpful if you can include such
> information as which ethernet card you're using and perhaps
> what other system components you have installed as well as
> the motherboard type.

The system is an i486DX2-66,
HiNT motherboard (EISA), Y2K compliant
32MB RAM (8x4MB)
eth0 => vx0 => 3c597 (3Com Fast-Etherlink III - EISA)
disk-controller: AHA-2742AT (twin-channel aic7xxx compatible with floppy
port)
two scsi-disks (both id0, on different channels)
yamaha cdr-200 on id 1, channel B (primary)
Spea-V7 1MB VL vga card
8-bit I/O-card for mouse

--> no X installed

-- 
Jens Rehsack --- <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de>
                 http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?38EA84C5.73EC3E1A>